April 2022: Shriver Hall Concert Series Presents Two Free Discovery Series Concerts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Katy Salomon | Morahan Arts and Media
katy@morahanartsandmedia.com | 863.660.2214

SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS TWO FREE
DISCOVERY SERIES CONCERTS IN APRIL 2022

April 2 at the UMBC’s Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall: 
The Baltimore Debut of Pianist Eric Lu (Livestream!)

April 23 at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium:
Violinist Jacqueline Audas, Winner of the 2020 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition

“Baltimore’s finest importer of classical music talent” – The Baltimore Sun

www.shriverconcerts.org

Baltimore, Maryland (March 1, 2022) — Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) — Baltimore’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists — is pleased to announce two free Discovery Series concerts in April 2022: the Baltimore debut of pianist Eric Lu on Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 3:00pm at University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall and violinist Jacqueline Audas, winner of the 2020 Yale Gordon Competition, on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 3:00pm at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium.

SHCS’s free Discovery Series is an annual series of concerts featuring extraordinary young artists emerging on the international scene in their Baltimore debuts. Each concert is presented in a different venue and neighborhood in the region, thereby offering greater access to different local communities.

Pianist Eric Lu takes the stage for his Baltimore debut on Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 3:00pm at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall. Praised by BBC Music Magazine as a musician “in a rare class – sensitive and emotionally intuitive,” Lu first came to attention at age 17 as a winner at the 2015 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw – and at age 20, he won First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition, the first American to receive that award since Murray Perahia. Lu’s program features J. S. Bach’s Toccata in C minor, BWV 911; Schumann’s Waldszenen, Op. 82; and Chopin’s turbulent last sonata, No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. The concert is also available via livestream and will remain available to watch for 72 hours after the broadcast.

The Discovery Series season closes on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 3:00pm at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium with a performance featuring violinist Jacqueline Audas, winner of the 2020 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition, accompanied by pianist Wan-Chi Su. The Yale Gordon Concerto Competition was established at The Peabody Conservatory in 1983 through a gift from the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust, and the 2020 competition was postponed due to the pandemic and held in fall 2021. Audas will perform a program of Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108; Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, BWV 1004; Lera Auerbach’s par.ti.ta for Solo Violin; Giya Kancheli’s Selections from Miniatures for Violin and Piano; and Ravel’s Tzigane for Violin and Piano.

Concert Information
Eric Lu, piano
Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 3:00pm
UMBC Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall | 1000 Hilltop Cir | Baltimore, MD
Tickets: Free general seating, $10 suggested donation. Live streamed and available on demand for 72 hours.
Link: www.Shriverconcerts.org/Lu

BACH: Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
SCHUMANN: Waldszenen, Op. 82
CHOPIN: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
     Eric Lu, piano (Baltimore Debut)

Jacqueline Audas, violin (Winner of the 2020 Yale Gordon Competition)
Wan-Chi Su, piano
Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 3:00pm
Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium | 10 Art Museum Dr | Baltimore, MD
Tickets: Free general seating, $10 suggested donation
Link: www.Shriverconcerts.org/YaleGordon

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
BACH: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, BWV 1004
AUERBACH: par.ti.ta for Solo Violin
KANCHELI: Selections from Miniatures for Violin and Piano
RAVEL: Tzigane for Violin and Piano
     Jacqueline Audas, violin 
     Wan-Chi Su, piano

About Eric Lu
Eric Lu won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018, the first American to win the prestigious prize since Murray Perahia. He made his BBC Proms debut the following summer, and is currently a member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme. Eric is a recipient of the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and is an exclusive Warner Classics recording artist.

Recent and forthcoming concerto highlights include debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and Kansas City Symphony.  He will also give recitals at the Rockport Music Festival, Cal Performances Berkeley, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Cologne Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Bath Mozartfest and Chopin and his Europe Festival.

Eric has recently performed with the Seattle Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, The Hallé, Shanghai Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Singapore Symphony amongst others. He has worked with conductors Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Vasily Petrenko, Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Martin Fr?st, Alexander Bloch, and Long Yu.

He has appeared in recital at Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, BOZAR Brussels, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Luxembourg, St. Petersburg Philharmonia, 92nd Street Y, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris, Seoul Arts Centre, Grand Theatre Shanghai, and Sala São Paulo. Eric went on tour with the Orchestre National de Lille in 2020, and in the prior year, he replaced Martha Argerich in Singapore, and Nelson Freire in São Paulo.

In 2020, Warner Classics released Eric’s first studio album, featuring the Chopin 24 Preludes, and Schumann’s Geistervariationen. It was met with critical acclaim, including one of BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Instrumental Records of the Year’. In 2018, Eric’s winning performances of Beethoven and Chopin from The Leeds with The Hallé and Edward Gardner was released by Warner. He has also released a Mozart, Schubert and Brahms recital on Genuin Classics.

Born in Massachusetts in 1997, Eric Lu first came to international attention as a prize-winner at the 2015 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw aged just 17. He previously won the 2015 US National Chopin Competition, and was awarded the International German Piano Award in 2017. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He is also a pupil of Dang Thai Son. He is now based in Berlin and Boston. Learn more at www.ericlupianist.com.

About Jacqueline Audas
Jacqueline Audas is a passionate violinist, focused on engaging and empowering communities through classical music. Her belief in the power of music to create bonds between people inspired her to found the non-profit organization, Classical C.A.R.M.A. (Concerts Aiming to Raise Money & Awareness). As its artistic director, Jacqueline helps to produce and perform innovative benefit concert series which fundraise for organizations that aid those in need, bring awareness to obstacles faced by underserved populations, and promote classical music education. This upcoming year, Classical C.A.R.M.A. will produce a series of outreach and fundraising concerts in collaboration with S.E.A.R.C.H., a Houston, Texas non-profit that works to end the cycle of homelessness. The goal is to entertain and fundraise, while highlighting the importance and value of S.E.A.R.C.H.’s work.

In the past few years, Jacqueline has made appearances abroad in Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, and New Zealand and performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician around the United States. Most recently, she has performed at the North Shore Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Keshet Eilon Mastercourse and the Sommermusik im Oberen Nagoldtal. Jacqueline has been awarded the top prize in multiple competitions and was a finalist in the Barlassina International Young Talents Competition and a quarterfinalist in both the 2019 Michael Hill International Violin Competition and the 2020 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition.

Jacqueline Audas recently graduated with her master’s degree in Violin Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she held the Anne and Charles Duncan Concertmaster Chair. While completing both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Shepherd School of Music, she studied with Paul Kantor. Prior to university, she studied with the late Arkady Fomin. Currently, she works with Vadim Gluzman at The Peabody Institute. Learn more at www.jacquelineaudas.com.

About Wan-Chi Su
Pianist Wan-Chi Su has performed in Asia, Europe, and the United States as a soloist and collaborative artist, at major venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, and Taiwan National Concert Hall. Reviewing her recent performance at the Washington National Cathedral, the American Scholar noted that “(she) played with sensitivity and imagination.”

Decorated with numerous awards, Ms. Su won first prize in the Taiwan Cultural Cup Invitational Piano Competition, and the Taiwan National Student Music Competition in Piano. Further, she has been invited to numerous music festivals, including the Taos School of Music, Beethoven Institute, both the Icicle Creek Piano Festival and the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, the NTSO International Piano Program in Taiwan, and the Paris Piano Program in France. She is the co-founder the Duo Sorolla and an artist member of the Piatigorsky Foundation since 2018.

Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ms. Su began piano lessons at age four. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in piano, minoring in French horn, at the National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan, followed by a Master of Music and a Graduate Performance Diploma at The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Su currently serves on the piano faculty of The Park School of Baltimore and maintains a small private studio. Learn more at www.wanchisu.com.

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Image Credits (L-R): Eric Lu by Ealovega. Jacqueline Audas by Sheena Haywood.